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SAT Reading: Why Does President Eisenhower Reference the Past in This Speech? 11 Views
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Watch this SAT Reading video on Eisenhower's final address for some info on his opinion of the military.
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- 00:02
okay moving on more of Ike there we go the speaker includes lines from 45 to 47
- 00:09
we'll highlight it for you there so you don't do any work American makers of [text on screen]
- 00:12
plowshares quoted with time and as required and exports as well primarily
- 00:14
do what I sing huh interesting all right so we have to think about all this in
- 00:19
context American makers of plowshares that's like farming equipment hood with
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- 00:24
timing is required make swords as well right so instead of a plow you're making
- 00:28
a sword like how do you allocate your resources that's kind of what he's
- 00:31
asking here so Eisenhower knows that the times they are a-changin he starts [picture of president]
- 00:35
paragraph six by explaining how things used to be when he talks about American [text on screen]
- 00:40
makers of plowshares well he's saying then when he talks about plowshares that
- 00:45
the u.s. used to get by without a large part of society in government devoted to [people in city]
- 00:50
national defense like we were more peaceniks kind of sort of but we had big [peace signs on US map]
- 00:54
oceans of protecting us Ike later says that Americans can't risk the old system
- 01:00
anymore of just not engaging militarily I guess so he doesn't want to go back to [writing on chalkboard]
- 01:04
it he does later mention how many people the industry employs but this is more of
- 01:08
a side benefit in his book not the reason for the spending he's also not [money piling up]
- 01:12
warning how bad the old system was by saying that peacetime industries could
- 01:17
handle the military needs with time and as required he's saying that well it was [text on screen]
- 01:23
sufficient at the time back then it was just fine so it's a insert here is right
- 01:27
there explain that the old system of armaments manufacturer was suitable at [civil war re-enactment]
- 01:31
the time why he brought in the whole plowshares
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